Device for preserving and protecting printed clippings.



No. 668,654. Patented Feb. 26, |904. -A. MERLIN. DEVICE FOR PRESERVING ANUPBDTECTING PRINTED CLIPPINGS.

(Application led Apr. 20, 1900.

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NITED v STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT MERLIN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

DEVICE FOR PRESERVING AND PROTECTING .PRINTED CLIPPlNGS.

SPECIFICATION forming?,` part of Letters Patent No. 668,654, dated February 26, 1901.

Application iileli April 20, 1900. Serial No` 13,621. (No model.)

To all, whom tt may concern:

' Be it known that I, ALBERT MERLIN, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Preserving and Protecting Printed Clippings; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

'lhis invention relates to devices for preserving and protecting clippings of printed matter; and it has for its object to provide a simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive device whereby'clippings from newspapers, magazines, dnc., may be preserved in a readily-accessible and compact form and protected against injury while being handled;

Vand it consists in providing a card of pasteboard or other thick paper of suitable stiffness or other suitable material having a gum med or adhesive surface for the attachment thereto of the printed clipping and means for protecting the clipping after it has been secured to the card, so that it may be iled away without liability to injury or exposure to dust, and in other details of construction and arrangement of the parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved clippingspreserving device arranged in a drawer or ling-box; Fig. 2, a perspective View of one of the cards; Fig. 3, a perspective View of the holder or receptacle; Fig. 4, a side elevation showing the card in the holder; Fig. 5, a side elevation of a modified form of holder; Fig. 6, a similar view of another modification; and Figs. 7 and 8, a side elevation and an edge view, respectively, of a modified form of the device. y

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout all the views.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a rectangular card having at one end a coating of a preparation of deXtrin, mucilage, or other suitable adhesive substance spread thereon, as at a, and at a suitable distance below the adhesive substance the words Clipped from, and a series of lines b are printed on the card in order to provide a space on which may be written the name and date and place of publieation of the newspaper or periodical from which the clipping is taken or other memoranda relating to the same.

The clipping B is readily attached to the card by moistening the adhesive substance and pressing the clipping thereon. rIhe clipping is arranged lengthwise on the card and with that end thereof which contains the caption or heading ot' the article at the top or gummed end of the card, and if the length of the clipping is greater than that of the card the clipping is to be folded back and forth in proper length on itself, so as to lie between the first fold of the clipping and the face of the card, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, so that when it is straightened out to be read it will unfold right side out.

C represents a pocket or receptacle formed of paper or other suitable material having an open flapless end, as shown in Fig. 3, adapted .in size to receive the card A therein lengthwise, but being, as shown in Fig. 4, in which iigure the card is shown as in place in the pocket, shorter than the card, so that the latter may extend or project therefrom a sufcient distance to disclose the caption or heading of the article printed on the clipping, and thereby enable the user to quickly distinguish the article sought for from the others with which it is tiled.

While I have found the arrangement just described to be satisfactory, I may, if desired, make the pocket and the card of the same length and cut out a square portion of one side of the pocket at the top or open end of the same, so that the caption or heading of the clipping may be exposed through the opening thus formed. The portion removed may be wholly from within the margin of the pocket, as shown at c, Fig. 6, or it may include a part of the margin at the open end of the pocket, as shown at d, Fig. 5.

In Figs. 7 and 8 I show another modification of my invention, by which the use of a pocket as a separate or independent element for protecting the clippingis obviated and in which the card D is made of any suitable stiff and tough paper or other material having the gummed portion e and of a length sufficient to permit of the bending or folding IOO of the lower portion of the card onto the clipping pasted thereon, so as to cover all of said clipping except the caption or heading thereof, as shown in said figures.

In the igures named the card is shown in its folded position, and its length is indicated by the dotted lines f.

It is evident that the entire surface of one side of the card may be coated with adhesive substance, if desired, so that the clipping may he made to adhere to the card the full length of the latter; but it is thought that it will be found only necessary to cause the upper or top end of the clipping to be secured to the card.

In Fig. l I show the cards arranged in a rectangular box or drawer E, which is preferably divided by lengthwise partitions into three compartments, as shown, although it may be a single undivided box, or it may be divided into as many compartments as may be required or found convenient. In arranging the holders and cards in the box or drawer I provide index or guide cards F, which are 0f greater length than the holders and cards, so that they stand above the latter and serve as indexes thereto. On the index-cards F may be written or printed the name or title of the different subjects to which the clippings relate-as, for instance, the word 'Musical, Political, Drama, &c.-and the cards holding the clippings relating to such subjects are arranged or classified accordingly in the box or drawer.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv l. A device for protecting and preserving clippings which consists of a backing for supporting the clippings and on which the same may be folded, means for attaching the clipping to such backing, and means forming a pocket for and shielding all of said clipping from view excepting the upper portion thereof.

2. A device for protecting and preserving clippings which consists of a suitable backing of stiff material having a gummed portion to which the clipping adheres, and a holder or receptacle for such backing and clipping adapted' to shield all of said clipping from view except the caption thereof.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT MERLIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN R. FARNUM, ED. J. REDMOND. 

